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Texas Art Teacher Certification Exam

Subjects : teaching, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Produces a red dye - the chemical name for rust






2. An enameling technique in which thin wire partitions-cloisons-are filled with enamel. It is an art form practiced in ancient Byzantium






3. Technique of shading using dots to control value






4. Fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure - Fusing two pieces of material using a heat process; most commonly used with metal and plastics






5. Wrought iron - hammered copper - painted tin NOT pewter






6. A loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads - French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)






7. Spanish founder of cubism; made Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to seek to create a new visual reality and provoke revolutionary upheaval; his figures are broken into large - flat planes with dislocated body parts; used African masks; very non-Western; Gue






8. Made possible by the contrariety between grease and water - printing produced through the use of ink on a flat surface (e.g. - stone or metal - A print produced by a printing process in which a smooth surface is treated so that the ink will adhere on






9. Incised engraving - the process of printing from engraved plates - a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate - ex: the plate is smeared with ink and Then wiped clean. The ink left in the recesses is what makes the print.






10. A philosophical doctrine and literary and dramatic movement that insists on the existence of individuals as basic and important. believes that the world is inhernetly meaningless and individuals must find meaning in their literal - concrete existence






11. Italian 'light-dark'. The gradation of light and dark values in two-dimensional imagery; especially the illusion of rounded - three-dimensional form created through gradations of light and shade rather than line.






12. In lithography - a waxy substance used to draw or paint images on a lithographic stone or plate






13. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines






14. A plain woven lightweight - extremely sheer - airy - and soft silk fabric - containing highly twisted filament yarns. The fabric - used mainly in evening dresses and scarves - can also be made from rayon and other manufactured fibers






15. Printing process in which the printing plate that has raised that is rolled with ink to print.






16. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof






17. A solid screen - covered with icons - at the front of the church - dividing the sanctuary from the body of the building.






18. A fabric-dyeing method which uses wax to coat areas that don't need to be dyed






19. A coarse - inexpensive - woven fabric; often used for making grain sacks






20. Date: 1839-1906 Important: Painted Mount Saint Victoire in Aix en- Provence over 60 times. Each painting is different b/c of angle and light -Trust your own eyes - and fanatic for the truth -Light- vibrations of color-Like an impressionist- heavy han






21. A porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area - Roman buildings followed this Greek architectural style






22. A water-base paint made with casein (which is a protein precipitated from milk)






23. A coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue - stiff-finished cotton or linen used for linings of garments






24. Which emphasized the artist's free expression of emotion - flourished in Germany in the year immediately prior to the outbreak of World War I. Georges Rouault (1871-1958) - a French painter - is regarded as this type of painter. Portrayal of reality






25. Something that supports a sculpture






26. Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back - leaving the impression on the face






27. A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops






28. An Italian movement begun shortly before and during WWI. It depicted dynamic movement and stressed the violence and speed of the Machine Age. They advocated revolution and glorified war.(Balla - Severini - Boccioni)






29. A decorative design made of one material sewn over another






30. Enameling technique - used more gold and less color than cloisonne. Starts with thick gold piece - cut tiny troughs wherever want color to be - gold is most prominent in end - rarely has patterns engraved.






31. Journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New York in the 1700's. He was jailed; he sued - and this court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and press. He was found not guilty.






32. Embroidery done in cross-stitch on fine single net






33. Known for his glass sculpture






34. The amount of light reflected by a hue






35. Technique of ornamenting in which small grains of metal - usually gold - are soldered to a flat surface






36. Period in which stained glass windows were introduced for church decoration






37. An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing - An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing






38. The threads running from side to side across a fabric; wool






39. Creates blue dye






40. A simple printmaking technique in which ink or paint is appleid to a metal or plastic plate - worked with various tools - and then printed onto paper using a press - roller - or other pressure.






41. French Painter - who started his career as a caricaturist - then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor Boudin. From 1890 he concentrated on series of pictures in which he painted the same subject at different times of the day in differe






42. Joining small pieces of metal together using molten metal - bonding metals and alloys that melt at temperatures below 840






43. Network Interface Card; the device that enables a workstation to connect to the network and communicate with other computers.






44. Term used to describe the many degrees of shading between black and white






45. Pale green






46. A print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil






47. Pottery that has been fired but not yet glazed.






48. French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) - Influences include hard sharp precision of a machine age






49. A style of abstractionism popular in the 1960s - modern technique with which a painter creates optical illusions with the use of dazzling patterns - abstract art athat uses geometric shapes and vivid colors to create optical illusions - such as an il






50. Emphasis of this architecture is on the horizontal